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adjective

as in introduced

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verb

past tense of naturalize
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as in adopted

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as in accustomed

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Recent Examples of naturalized
Adjective
Aleksander Antonov, who came to the US as a Soviet refugee and has since become a naturalized US citizen, was arrested in 2025 when attempting to cross the border from Russia into Estonia. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026 Trump said of Omar, who is a naturalized American citizen from Somalia. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 Villarreal Ortiz obtained permanent residence by falsely identifying his aunt, a naturalized American citizen, as his mother and later concealed that deception when applying for citizenship, prosecutors say. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 DiLeo became a naturalized Spanish citizen in 2023 and made her debut for Spain at the 2024 Paris Olympics. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026 For naturalized citizens facing a federal criminal investigation, immigration consequences should never be viewed as an afterthought. — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Investigators say Scott is a naturalized citizen of the United States who could have traveled back to his homeland of the Republic of Türkiye. — Dan Raby, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026 Some blasted the effort as a tactic meant to intimidate the country's more than 26 million naturalized citizens. — Christopher Cann, USA Today, 26 July 2026 Current and former military service members who are applying to become naturalized citizens, though, are still eligible for fee exemptions. — Chantelle Lee, Time, 22 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for naturalized
  1. transplanted
  2. adopted
  3. accustomed
  4. nonnative
  5. domesticated
  6. habituated
  7. alien
  8. appropriated
Adjective
  • The new hairline has to work with the face, so the donor area needs to be used carefully, and the transplanted grafts should be distributed in a way that still looks balanced as the years pass.
    — Ascend Agency, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Some of the transplanted hairs may shed during the early weeks before new growth begins.
    — Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of transplanted
Verb
  • The MacBook screens have always been top-notch, meeting P3 color-gamut standards despite being IPS panels, and some have adopted additional features like True Tone ambient color adjustment.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
  • How fast the benefits of a truly life-changing technology flow through the economy is the actual measure of how fast it is being adopted.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of adopted
Verb
  • No one in the city has turned to the Sixers for salvation for years, accustomed to a process that never proceeded.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The meeting attendees at AP6 had the faces of people accustomed to scrutiny.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of accustomed
Adjective
  • Their populations were first threatened in the late 1800s when nonnative trout that fed on tadpoles were introduced to their habitats for recreational fishing.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • But then in the mid-1980s, nonnative lake trout gained a foothold.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of nonnative
Verb
  • The rivalry between dog people and cat people has existed for as long as animals have been domesticated.
    — Robert Granader, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Livestock have been reshaping landscapes since humans first domesticated sheep, goats, pigs, and cows, about ten thousand years ago.
    — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of domesticated
Verb
  • First, we’ve been habituated to bite-sized texts like, well… texts, Reddit, email and Instagram captions.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026
  • In some cases, DEEP said loud noises are not effective at scaring away bears, especially ones that have already been habituated.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2026
Definition of habituated
Adjective
  • The character creator is impressive, too, with a huge number of unlockable outfits and accessories, as well as classic alien races from the movies and cartoons.
    — Brad Bourque, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2026
  • And their extreme, alien physics may help scientists elucidate how the first generation of stars and the first galaxies came to be.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of alien
Verb
  • The One Big Beautiful Bill Act even appropriated $40 million for the project.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Some anti-hate groups view the use of the nose emoji as antisemitic, while goy is a term that has been appropriated by those who espouse antisemitic views.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of appropriated

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